2023-12-13 21:27:55
A confrontation with terrorists in an area of Gaza City called Shejalya has become the worst episode for Israeli troops since the beginning of the ground invasion of the Strip: nine soldiers of the Golan Brigade have lost their lives in the confrontation, which together with another casualty at another point on the front already raises 115 the total number of deaths of the Israeli Army since it began ground operations in Gaza.
This means that we would already be facing the Israeli military operation with the highest cost in lives. since the Second Lebanon War that confronted Israel in 2006 with the Hezbollah terrorists and led to the death of 121 soldiers, a figure that unfortunately everything indicates can be surpassed soon. Obviously, in addition, to these data we must add the nearly 1,400 people murdered in the Hamas attack of October 7.
The death of these 115 soldiers on the ground shows that, contrary to what anti-Semitic propaganda repeats around the world –including Pedro Sánchez and several members of his Government– Israel is not carrying out indiscriminate bombings in Gazabut is developing a military operation on the ground, advancing practically street by street and exposing its soldiers to obvious risk precisely to prevent a massacre of Palestinians.
Ambushed in a residential building
According to the statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Golan brigade had been operating in the same area for a week, eliminating terrorists and dismantling what the Israeli Army has called “infrastructure of terror”that is, the tunnels and other facilities created by Hamas for its operations.
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During one of these operations a group of terrorists attacked with explosives to a detachment of this brigade that was entering a residential building in which one of the Hamas tunnels had been located. The attackers They then opened fire on the wounded and the soldiers who came to his aid, which led to a confrontation in which nine casualties occurred, including both soldiers and several officers of the unit, including Colonel Ben Basat, who He is the highest-ranking soldier to have fallen in combat since the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza.
Hamas continues to take refuge behind civilians
Since the beginning of the war – in fact, since before the war – Hamas has used Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as human shields and has used any type of civil infrastructure, including mosques and hospitals. In fact, the attack that cost the lives of nine soldiers took place in a residential building.
But not only that: the terrorists They have not even respected the “humanitarian zone” that Israel established in the south of the Strip on October 18 so that civilians could take refuge from the bombings in a safe space, quite the contrary, they have used it as a platform to launch 116 rockets from there on Israeli territory, according to the data that The IDF made public this Wednesday.
A terrorist activity that, as is obvious, aims precisely to put the lives of civilian refugees at risk. It is not in vain that we must remember that, according to testimonies collected in the Strip itself, the Hamas terrorists even shot at the Palestinians who were heading towards to that southern area, trying to prevent them from leaving the area where most of the military operations and bombings were taking place.
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